Nik Smit

Technologist, entrepreneur, coffee imbiber.

[Nik Smit @niksmit]

@TicketmasterES Your payment form is failing to validate valid credit card numbers properly, impossible to check out.

[Nik Smit @niksmit]

@rowancheung @JeremyNguyenPhD Sadly, is already happening: https://t.co/xt3fZbHlvY

[Ethan Mollick @emollick]

A highly important open question about AIs has been whether they can actually discover new things.

Today, a new Nature paper has shown that LLMs can! A model "discovered new solutions for the cap set problem, a longstanding open problem in mathematics" https://t.co/il9wRfGTqe

[Nik Smit @niksmit]

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[Paul Couvert @itsPaulAi]

ChatGPT has now a big problem.

Google just updated its free competitor, Bard.

Here are 8 things impossible on ChatGPT but that Bard can do (for free):

[Nik Smit @niksmit]

@BarclaysUKHelp @the_spad Same issue here. App was working fine until an update. I've reported it directly to the helpline it advises, and after about 4 weeks, just got an update that "the developers can't find any issue". The app itself should log the exact error reason and make it available to devs.

[Borriss @_Borriss_]

Every Bro who paid $20 for GPT-4:

The Prompt:

Act as: Editor
Degree of revision: Substantial Revision
Type of edit: Enhance clarity and consistency
Change style to: Academic, PhD Work
Change tone to: Analytical
Change reader comprehension level to: advanced, assume extensive prior knowledge
Change length to: 1000 Words

My Text:

Brav.. hav u chaked the gpt-4 thing?? U can writ any branles drunken drivel in it and it changes it to any level even PhD hyper brain style.. truili insanse.. you, got to check it bro! Its a tru gift for all of us iliterate assholes around the the global flat plane! Now we can have universit jobs.. hhah crazi stuff...

[Chris Frantz @frantzfries]

Google hits back with a full integration of AI across Google Workspace.

Includes generating images, presentations, emails, docs and more all within Google Workspace.

Video overview is slick

[Chris Bakke @ChrisJBakke]

Running a company:

2020: can you survive a pandemic?

2021: still here? we’re going to give all of your competitors $100m series A rounds.

2022: wow, you made it? okay, all engineers cost $600,000/year now.

2023: nice job! okay, we’re going to take away your bank account.

[Siqi Chen @blader]

okay so AI can literally read our minds now.

a team from osaka was able to reconstruct visual images from mri scan data using stable diffusion.

first row is the image presented to the test subject, second row is the reconstructed image from mri data.

wild.

[Nik Smit @niksmit]

@elonmusk tweets asking for a thread to be "unrolled" (and similar) is the lowest hanging spam you could fix. Just noise.

[Nik Smit @niksmit]

@EricTopol @ahandvanish @LisaAMcCorkell @juliamv @NatureRevMicro Typo on slide 2, "immue"

[Crypto Tea @Cryptotea]

Someone asked AI to turn each country into a villain 👇🧵

[Nik Smit @niksmit]

I do find it a bit amusing all these recent comments about how Google search is going to be replaced by gpt chat, as if none of this is known to Google

[Sterling Crispin 🕊️ @sterlingcrispin]

Imagine an AI model that's 3x larger and more powerful than GPT3 aka ChatGPT

Google already built that in April, called PaLM, on their own TPU hardware competing with NVIDIA. People think ChatGPT will replace Google but they basically invented transformers in '17 (the T in GPT)

[Nik Smit @niksmit]

@realBobbyHealy This is precisely it. "The Town Square" means the messy messy business of humans and gray areas, everywhere. Not his strong suite.

[Nik Smit @niksmit]

@kazuki_sf_ Would it not be limited to 4000 tokens in the input, so just a small part of the video?

[Aleksandr Volodarsky @volodarik]

There are tons of blogs by exceptional CTOs/engineers you probably have not heard of. They are super nerdy and beautiful.

Here are 20 you should be reading:

[Nik Smit @niksmit]

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[CtrlRobotics @ctrlRobotics]

KettyBot continues the minimalist design concept. The compact size and forward-leaning C-shaped body allow the robot to go through a clearance of only 55cm, making it an ideal choice in complex and crowded environments. Have a use-case for robots in your busy environment?Comment!